TY - BOOK AU - Jost,Walter AU - Olmsted,Wendy TI - A companion to rhetoric and rhetorical criticism T2 - Blackwell companions to literature and culture SN - 9781405149570 (pbk.) : AV - PN187 .C65 2006 U1 - 808.042 JOS PY - 2006/// CY - Malden, Mass., Oxford PB - Blackwell KW - Rhetoric KW - Criticism KW - Rhetorical criticism KW - Literature KW - ukslc KW - Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics KW - thema KW - Literary theory N1 - Originally published: 2004; Includes bibliographical references and index; Part I: Rhetoric in Its Place and Time:- 1. Introduction: Contingency and Probability-- 2. The Politics of Deliberation: Oratory and Democracy in Classical Athens--3. Text and Context in the Roman Forum: The Case of Cicero\'s First Catilinarian--4. A Conversational Opener: The Rhetorical Paradigm of John 1:1-- 5. Continental Poetics-- 6. \'His tail at commandment\': George Puttenham and the Carnivalization of Rhetoric-- 7. Rhetorical Selfhood in Erasmus and Milton-- 8. Rhetoric, Rights, and Contract Theory in the Early Modern Period-- 9. The Philosophy of Rhetoric in Campbell\'s Philosophy of Rhetoric-- 10. The Rhetorical Legacy of Kenneth Burke-- Part II: Rhetoric\'s Favorite Places:- 11. Topics (and deliberation): Exemplifying Deliberation: Cicero\'s De Officiis and Machiavelli\'s Prince-- 12. Deliberation (and topics): Cultivating Deliberating: Mindfully Resourceful Innovation In and Through the Federalist Papers--13. Ethos: Socrates Talks Himself Out of His Body: Ethical Argument and Personal Immortality in the Phaedo--14. Pathos: Rhetoric and Emotion--15. Analogies, Parables, Paradoxes: Get On Down: Plato\'s Rhetoric of Education in the Republic--16. Style: The Rhetoric of the Aphorism--17. Argumentation: What Jokes Can Tell Us About Arguments-- 18. Commonplaces: Sensus communis--19. Judgment: Arts of persuasion and judgment: Rhetoric and Aesthetics--Part III: Rhetoric and Its Critics:- 20. Epiphany and Epideictic: The Low Modernist Lyric in Robert Frost--21. Lolita: Solipsized or Sodomized?; or, Against Abstraction - in General--22. Narrative as Rhetoric and Edith Wharton\'s Roman Fever:Progression, Configuration, and the Ethics of surprise--23. Mind the Gap: W.G. Sebald and the Rhetoric of Unrest--24. Rhetoric in the wilderness: The deep Rhetoric of the late twentieth century--Part IV: All in Good Time- and Timing:- 25. Aristotle\'s Rhetoric and Bakhtin\'s Discourse Theory--26. Reviving the rhetorical heritage of protestant theology--27. Rhetoric: Time, Memory, Memoir--28. Rhetoric in the Law--29. Rhetorical Hermeneutics still again: or, On the track of Phronesis--30. Rhetoric and Poetics: How to use the inevitable return of the repressed--31. My life with rhetoric: from neglect to obsession N2 - This title offers a survey of rhetorical studies and of the practice of rhetorical theory and criticism across a range of disciplines. It includes an overview of rhetorical traditions, providing examples of rhetoric from ancient to contemporary times ER -